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Clear CT1 used to stick this trim on this time. FAR easier and forgiving for a novice like me than mitre bond! I'm ripping all the ones I did with that off and redoing! Apply a bead: It all squidges out as you press to fit and get the best line aka disguise your slightly wobbly edge. Seems to achieve just the right tackiness to let you position it and it stay there: Clean up with copious amounts of the cheapest baby wipes:

Just make sure you tape the joints and whack whatever on. Worst happens you get hairline cracks but the paint will fill it. Tbh the Gyprob EasiFill is very "easy" to sand.

Asphalt...

First one I guess as it says for joints without specifically being "jointing compound". Don't blame me if it doesn't work! I've have as an aside used the small boxes of Bartoline powder before for small patch repairs. Good stuff.

Got a Wilkinsons nearby? https://www.wilko.com/en-uk/wilko-stainless-steel-scourers-6pk/p/0178483

Asphalt to "park" on is a harder beast quite different from roofing asphalt. Look up Polymer/Permapark, Maybe these people: PERMANITE LIMITED Cawdor Quarry Matlock Derbyshire DE4 2JH Tel No.: 01629 580 363 Fax No: 01629 760 993

Mice can distend their skulls I think and get through hole the diameter of a pencil. It's why the openings in the brown/white, round jbs are the size they are. It's probably munched through the vcl. When and if it does die you'll know how airtight things are by the smell Still alive I'd guess it's found a way in/out so is living there now. It'll be dragging all sorts of food scraps, small prey in. I found snail shells when I lifted the floor of the dormer upstairs, right in the centre of the bungalow. Squirrels btw have their own pungent, slightly acidic smell. Not nearly as unpleasant as RAT.....unless it dies!

Wot I said wasn't it?

Does that include the new roof? It'll be another "gut it" job right back to the studs/joists. Get rid of the Artex ceilings, 9.5mm pb walls, hit & miss roll insulation and standard 18mm chipboard flooring. Geberit wall mount frame already got plus no learning curve on that at least! Going to have a nice tray too and make the shower bigger.

Ta. No monthly subscription is there?

Do you fill the expansion joint with "mastic"?

To anyone planning their bathroom: Check, double check and check again your tiling layout. Cutting pi$$y little <40mm rips is time consuming. I had a plan (even made a model) but deviated from it with the pockets and mixer positions. I didn't see the knock on of this. The fitting too, up against the ceiling, will be awkward and it's another grout line to get dirty! Still, all good experience for when I do the en suite!

Anyone use or recommend a Miracast, MiraScreen, Anycast type dongle? Like this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HD-1080p-MiraCast-HDMI-Media-Streamer-TV-Player-Dongle-Wifi-Display-Receiver-ML/312263572414?hash=item48b45bfbbe:g:JnwAAOSwUVhbwXgU:rk:12:pf:0 Simply want to whack one in the back of a non smart TV via the HDMI so the youngest can "cast" her yoga or whatever videos to the telly from her phone. Cheap as chips but which one? Ta

I used to take the regs to bed to read, like a novel. Fascinating tbh. Not much of a plot mind!

Trouble is there is so much info in the regs now it's a pita to remember it all. It's quite acceptable to say you need to refer to the regs during an assessment though probably not on every question! In fact, if designing wouldn't you want someone to methodically refer to the written word than guess it or "remember". Fwiw I smashed the 17th. Did a few hundred test questions beforehand and tagged the book for speed. As long as you know in what section something is you've got 2 mins per question. 60 questions over 2 hours. 58 mins with a migraine and no Neurofen! Got 98.something percent.

Crap pics but looks pretty damn good from what I can make out. You've bought the 20KG bag already? It won't last forever you know, use and bin the rest unless you can take it back and get a refund. When you apply and feather you obviously want to cover the perforated trim with the "plaster" at a shallow angle rather than steep & sudden where it'll be more noticeable. The better you do it now the less sanding back. Some deftly applied decent white silicon where the tiles meet the window would hide that black gap too.

Don't know what his earthing system is but it might be advisable to run that 4m of cable in "earthed metallic" something as it won't be rcd protected if off a breaker. Pedantic?

You could likely replace the rcbo with a suitable sized breaker then feed a small local cu incorporating a couple of rcbos... Then if one goes down it won't affect the other.

Not cheap. Trying a few old mates to see if they have one. About 18" - 2 ' diameter the ones I'm thinking of. There are fabricated versions using a central, bearinged shaft etc. This maybe: https://www.slhardwoods.co.uk/products/tools-and-accessories/accessories/turntable-360-450kg-capacity You'd still need "outrigger" casters at the near edge of the structure.

A "just my luck" sort of thing! A weird fitting tbh, 16mm pex-al-pex to 15mm compression only it's chrome pipe not copper:

Repair patches. Thinly smeared! Will re tank later. I deliberately left the hole in the mrpb over size so I could wriggle the pipe around: I have no idea then as to whether when the tile is fitted, the pipe is central to the hole in the mrpb. I was going to cut some small rings of pb to go over the pipe and block the hole up a bit. Can't see it being concentric though. Thinking anyway to stick the two half tiles over the pipe on with "blobs" of something like EBT so if the elbow joints in there ever leak I can "easily" break out the one tile and a small, localised area of pb. It'll be a darn sight easier than removing acres of tile adhesive! So rather than a ring of pb to block the hole maybe a ring of EBT AROUND the hole and squash the tile onto it?

I don't think it was tripping out on over temperature again or the switch you reset would have tripped. It was doing what it's supposed to do as mentioned here on the forum previously. It "cycles" to gradually change the pcm state uniformly.

The exam simulator I referred to above and sent to Nick was for the 17th but tbh 99% valid as a learning tool. There's also this free online one for the 18th: http://www.sparkyfacts.co.uk/18thedition/18th-edition-exam-simulator.php

Potentially yes. I guess if it's a long run and they're dead parallel, v.unlikely in reality as cables get a bit of a natural twist. Trunking inside trunking or flex conduit inside trunking? That'd tick the separation box.

You need to physically separate them. See the commissioning sheets tick box. Not sure if this is the latest: Guide_to_the_installation_of_PV_systems_2nd_Edition.pdf